i got a little, tiny, dinky, end of a toothpick sized 2.9 liter v6, i decided to put the pedal to the floor today, and it barely did 76MPH, my friends 96 f250 powerstroke turbo diesel will hit about 115-120, but my truck does wicked burnouts whereas his truck "jumps" because of the extreme torque it puts out, anyways, i thought my truck wouild at least do 90-95, but its fooled me, the pedal wouldnt go any farther, i think i will have to find a few light upgrades to do to it.



It is slow as hell!, i like speed too, not friggin granny driving.

 

man that is slow. my freinds 3.0 stops at like 90 i think due to the governer or somthing but prob accelerates slow as hell to

 

my truck accelerates real quick until 5th grear at 65mph, then it takes about 2-3 mins to get to 75/76mph, i will have to test again next weekend, when i see my buddy again, we gotta get some stuff accomplished at his house with the 3wheeler and the sled, but i got to mid way between 75/76, and then it was time to begin slowing down for a damn stop sign on a road in the sticks, nothing around there, but they got a stop sign, and with my luck, id get nailed by some random cop or somethin. i will test it out next time and see if we can update this post with some improvements. by the way, my truck goes sideways real nicely, do you think a K&N filter would help, also, we cut my muffler pipe and all off about 6 inches behind the cat, anmd we just did straight pipe to the passenger side of the truck, it doesnt sound like a ***** 2.9L v6, it sounds like a throaty hot rod v8, it was my friends idea, we were gonna put the cherrybomb muffler on but decided it sounded better.

 

theres your problem right there...smaller engines need more back pressure to operate than a bigger engine. youd do best to put a muffler on there and create a little back pressure. then your acceleration wouldnt suck as much.

 

Man, I rode with christan one time...

Yall are right...

3.0 are slow...

 

I know 3.0 is so slow.........(looks at sig)...........yep, so freakin slow! lol

 

thats why i traded my truck in, the 3.slow is an awful, awful engine

 

i accelerate faster w/o a muffler, gonna clean the cat before summer hits, im gonna do some better spark plugs in it, do the k&n cone filter mod, upgrade my xlt grill to a stx grill from the 91/92 yrs, and possibly regaer, but i think that might **** with my 4wheel drive, so it will prolly stay, might buy a locker, still thinkin, wont be anything expensive, im gonna try to stay cheap, but improve the performance while not loosing much economy, if any, i bought the truck about 700 miles ago, at just ove 93,000, that was december, then it sat in the driveway for a while till i got some tools to finnish fixing the water pump, i took the belt off to the a/c pump, that gave me a bit of power, and it was enough that i could feel the power increase, any suggestions on what else i could do, hopefully not too expensive, id like to have a bit of cash for at college, and the ladies, hehe